diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/help')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/help/Manage-Team.md | 37 |
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/help/Manage-Team.md b/doc/help/Manage-Team.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b45ea4283 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/help/Manage-Team.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +# Manage Team + +The Manage Team menu is used to change the user roles assigned to members belonging to a team. + +## User Roles + +The following user roles are assigned from the **Manage Team** menu option in the team site main menu. + +### System Admin + +The System Administrator is typically a member of the IT staff and has the follow privileges: + +- Access to the System Console from the main menu in any team site. +- Change any setting on the Mattermost server available in the System Console. +- Promote and demote other users to and from the System Admin role. +- This role also has all the privileges of the Team Administrator as described below + +The first user added to a newly installed Mattermost system is assigned the System Admin role. + +### Team Admin + +The Team Administrator is typically a non-technical end user and has the following privileges: + +- Access to the "Team Settings" menu from the team site main menu +- Ability to change the team name and import data from Slack export files +- Access to the "Manage Team" menu and change user roles to the levels of Team Administrator, Member and Inactive + +### Member + +This is the default role given to end users who join the system. Members have basic permissions to use the Mattermost team site. + +### Inactive + +This status is given to users whose accounts are marked inactive. These users can no longer log into the system. + +Because Mattermost is designed as a system-of-record, there is not an option to delete users from the Mattermost system, as such an operation could compromise the integrity of message archives. + |